BROCKTON – Two badly burned bodies were found inside a tent in the woods on the city’s East Side early Monday evening, investigators said.

Foul play is not suspected, but an autopsy will be performed to identify the victims and determine how they died, said Bridget Norton Middleton, a spokeswoman for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.

The bodies were reported shortly before 6 p.m. in the industrial area behind Eco Recycling System Inc., 185 Mulberry St.

The wooded area behind Mulberry Street is a known place where homeless people take up residence in tents.

Brockton and state police responded to the scene while the Plymouth County sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation was contacted to photograph evidence. The Brockton Fire Department, which cut the lock to the chainlink fence separating the facility from the woods beyond, was also on hand to assist police.

At the scene, two women seen speaking with police were visibly shaken and crying, as investigators emerged from the area of the woods where the bodies were found.

Brockton Police Chief Robert Hayden confirmed that two bodies had been found, but declined to provide further details on the situation.

“I can’t say anything more,” Hayden said.

Police Lt. Paul Bonanca referred all questions to the district attorney’s office.

Norton Middleton said that the incident remains under investigation by state police detectives assigned to the Plymouth County district attorney’s office, the Brockton Police Department and the state Fire Marshal’s office.

The gruesome discovery in the woods is not the first of its kind in recent months.

On Nov. 13 and 14, the burned remains of Dennis Jackson, 24, of Haverhill, were found in Bridgewater and the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston.

In Bridgewater, his charred remains were found burning in a barrel in the woods at the Bridgewater Correctional Complex. The minimum security prison and state hospital are off Titicut Street near the Middleboro line.

In Boston, police discovered more of Jackson’s burned remains behind a building at 20 Readville St.

Workers for a landscaping and street-repair business that leases space on the Readville Street property told the Boston Globe at the time that they found a still-smoldering corpse with the head and limbs removed in back of where they were working.

In January, police recovered a body part from the Charles River in Cambridge that the Essex County District attorney’s office believed could be related to the charred body parts found in Boston and Bridgewater last November.

Police said they found evidence believed to be connected to Jackson’s death in a home rented by Reginald Cummings in Haverhill.

Page 2 of 2 - Cummings hasn’t been charged in Jackson’s death and denies any involvement in the case, but was arrested in California in December on unrelated charges.

In a separate incident, the body of a Brockton man, Bruce Miguel Gomes, 23, was discovered last November by a hiker nearly two years after Gomes was reported missing.

His remains were found by the hiker in the woods off East Street near the East Bridgewater line.